Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

Part 1: What you hear about cloud computing

Part 2: How a cloud architect sees cloud computing

Part 3: Technology Services – It’s not about the technology

Part 4: Cloud Security – it’s all about the data

Part 5: Capstone – end-to-end design exercise

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Prologue

Ground rules

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing history

Cloud computing definition

Essential characteristics of cloud computing

Cloud computing operational models

Cloud service models

IaaS – background

IaaS – things to consider

SaaS – background

SaaS – things to consider

PaaS – background

PaaS – things to consider

Other cloud service models

Cloud deployment models

Public

Private and dedicated

Private cloud

Dedicated cloud

Virtual private cloud

Community

Hybrid

Other delivery models

Cloud washing

Cloud computing taxonomy

Summary

Governance and Change Management

IT governance

Implementation strategy

Change management

IT service management

Architecting cloud computing solution catalogs

Summary

Design Considerations

Foundation for design – the thought process

Foundation for design – the cloud is economic not technical

Foundation for design – the plans

Understand business strategy and goals

Summary

Business Drivers Metrics and Use Cases

Return on Investment

ROI metrics

Key performance indicators

Business goal key performance indicators

Economic goal metric

General use cases

Summary

Architecture Executive Decisions

Invert for insight – process

Real-time collaboration

Express challenges not requirements

Automate and enable

Stop talking technology – Strategy

Economics not pricing – Economics

Solutions not servers – Technology

Lower costs can be bad for business – Risk

Adoption is optional – Culture

Technology for the executives

Cloud service models for executives

Deployment models for executives

Implementation models and IT governance for executives

Summary

Architecting for Transition

User characteristics

Application design

Application migration

Application workloads

Static workloads

Once-in-a-lifetime workloads

Unpredictable and random workloads

Application categories

Application dependencies

Use of APIs

SOAP

REST

Advantages of SOAP and REST

Technical architecture requirements

Legal/regulatory/security requirements